ABOUT AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES 2

Premieres Wednesday, February 6th 9pm ET

Check your local listings for air dates. There are pleanty repeats!

SHOWS:
1. African American Lives: The Road Home; A Way Out of No Way
The second-season premiere features Tom Joyner.

2. African American Lives: We Come from People; The Past is Another Country
Morgan Freeman's great-grandmother; Peter Gomes's ancestors.

ABOUT
Building on the widespread acclaim of African American Lives (2006) and Oprah's Roots (2007), AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES 2 again journeys deep into ancestry of an all-new group of remarkable individuals, offering an in-depth look at the African-American experience and race relations throughout U.S. history.

Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns as series host, guiding genealogical investigations down through the 20th century, Reconstruction, slavery and early U.S. history, and presenting cutting-edge genetic analysis that locates participants' ancestors in Africa, Europe and America.

Joining Professor Gates in the new broadcast are poet Maya Angelou, author Bliss Broyard, actor Don Cheadle, actor Morgan Freeman, theologian Peter Gomes, publisher Linda Johnson Rice, athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, radio personality Tom Joyner, comedian Chris Rock, music legend Tina Turner, and college administrator Kathleen Henderson, who was selected from more than 2,000 applicants to have her family history researched and DNA tested alongside the series' well-known guests.